James C. Scott

Professor, Author

1936 –

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Who is James C. Scott?

James C. Scott is a American Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University. He is also the director of the Program in Agrarian Studies and a noted anarchist scholar. Scott is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Scott lives in Connecticut, where he raises sheep. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his MA and PhD from Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1976, when he returned to Yale.

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Born
Dec 2, 1936
New Jersey
Also known as
  • James Scott
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Williams College
  • PhD, Yale University
    Political Science
    ( - 1967)
Employment
  • Yale University
Lived in
  • Durham

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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